Proceedings 1 – 1987 20 October 1986 ‒ Inaugural Meeting ‒ THE INTELLIGENCE WAR AND THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by Prof R V Jones

Proceedings 2 – 1987 16 March 1987 ‒ WORLD WAR II – THE BALANCE SHEET by John Terraine 1 June 1987 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 1st AGM, HELD AT 4 HAMILTON PLACE (consideration of a draft Constitution) THE WORK OF THE AIR HISTORICAL BRANCH by guest speaker, Air Cdre H A Probert THE ROYAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM by AGM guest speaker, Dr John Tanner The address given by MRAF Sir Michael Beetham at the Memorial Service for Air Chf Mshl Sir Augustus Walker on 30 January 1987

Proceedings 3 – 1988 26 October 1987 – AIR ASPECTS OF THE SUEZ CAMPAIGN – a seminar held at the Royal United Services Institute, London Chairman: Keith Kyle SETTING THE SCENE by Keith Kyle THE VIEW FROM WHITEHALL by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee THE SCENE AT THE AIR MINISTRY by Sir Frank Cooper THE PLANNERS’ PERSPECTIVE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Denis Smallwood COMMAND OF THE OPERATION by Air Chf Mshl Sir Thomas Prickett A SQUADRON COMMANDER’S VIEWPOINT by AVM Paul Mallorie AN APPRAISAL OF THE AIR CAMPAIGN by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee

Proceedings 4 – 1988 14 March 1988 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 2nd AGM, HELD AT 4 HAMILTON PLACE (adoption of Constitution) THE IMPACT OF THE SANDYS DEFENCE POLICY ON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by AGM guest speaker, T C G James 20 June 1988 ‒ THE POLICY, COMMAND AND DIRECTION OF THE LUFTWAFFE IN WORLD WAR II by Dr Horst Boog

Proceedings 5 – 1989 31 October 1988 – THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS IN NORTH- WEST EUROPE – a seminar held at 4 Hamilton Place Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Frederick Sowrey SETTING THE SCENE by Prof Michael Foot THE BUILD-UP OF RAF OPERATIONS by Wg Cdr Ron Hockey PARACHUTE OPERATIONS by Air Chf Mshl Sir Lewis Hodges PICK-UP OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Hugh Verity THE VIEW FROM THE FIELD by Tony Brooks Address by Wg Cdr P B Lucas delivered at the Service of Thanksgiving for The Rt Hon The Lord Balfour of Inchrye at St Clement Danes, 30 Nov 88

Proceedings 6 ‒ 1989 13 March 1989 ‒ PORTAL, HARRIS AND THE BOMBER OFFENSIVE THE TWO COMMANDERS AND THEIR VIEWS ON THE OFFENSIVE by guest speaker (at the 3rd AGM – see Proceedings 7), Denis Richards THE MAIN CONTROVERSIES by guest speaker (at the 3rd AGM – see Proceedings 7), Air Cdre Henry Probert 14 June 1989 ‒ THE BERLIN AIRLIFT 1948-49 – a seminar held at 4 Hamilton Place Chairman: John Tusa THE BERLIN BLOCKADE by John Tusa THE DIPLOMATIC BACKGROUND by Sir Frank Roberts OUTLINE OF THE OPERATION by Paul Wood A BAFO (BRITISH AIR FORCES OF OCCUPATION) PERSPECTIVE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Kenneth Cross THE VIEW FROM THE AIR MINISTRY by Air Cdre F F Rainsford THE AIRCREW VIEWPOINT by AVM Sir Brian Stanbridge, Gp Capt Jack Holt and Wg Cdr John Dowling Tribute by Gp Capt Leonard Cheshire delivered at the Memorial Service for Air Mshl Sir Harold Martin held at St Clement Danes, 4 Jan 89

Proceedings 7 – 1990 13 March 1989 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 3rd AGM, HELD AT 4 HAMILTON PLACE (for guest speakers see Proceedings 6) 23 October 1989 ‒ THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENT FORCES 1945-1960 ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: MRAF Sir Michael Beetham THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND by Humphrey Wynn THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB by Air Mshl Sir John Rowlands THE GRAPPLE WEAPON TRIALS by AVM W E Oulton AIR STAFF POLICY by Sir Frank Cooper THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE V-FORCE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Kenneth Cross A STATION COMMANDER’S VIEW by Air Cdre C B Brown CONCLUDING REVIEW – THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE V-FORCE by Prof Lawrence Freedman Stand-alone paper: RAF HISTORICAL RESEARCH by Air Commodore Henry Probert Proceedings 8 – 1990 5 March 1990 ‒ EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE 4th AGM, HELD AT 4 HAMILTON PLACE THE RAF AND AIR CONTROL BETWEEN THE WARS by AGM guest speaker, Dr Philip Towle 27 June 1990 ‒ CONINGHAM: A BIOGRAPHER’S LAMENT AND DECLARATION by Dr Vincent Orange

Proceedings 9 – 1991 29 October 1990 ‒ ROYAL AIR FORCE/UNITED STATES AIR FORCE CO-OPERATION ‒ a seminar held jointly with the USAF Historical Foundation at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Mr Michael Charlton HIGHER COMMAND STRUCTURE AND RELATIONSHIPS, US PERSPECTIVE by Dr Richard Davis HIGHER COMMAND STRUCTURE AND RELATIONSHIPS, UK PERSPECTIVE by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE IN EUROPE, US PERSPECTIVE by Dr Alfred Goldberg THE STRATEGIC AIR OFFENSIVE IN EUROPE, UK PERSPECTIVE by Dr Richard Overy LAND/AIR OPERATIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN AND NORTH WEST EUROPE, US PERSPECTIVE by Prof I B Holley LAND/AIR OPERATIONS IN MEDITERRANEAN AND NORTH WEST EUROPE, UK PERSPECTIVE Mr John Terraine 11 March 1991 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 5th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB ON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE BATTLE OF MALTA by AGM guest speaker, Wg Cdr P B ‘Laddie’ Lucas CBE DSO DFC

Proceedings 10 – 1991 10 June 1991 ‒ PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE IN WORLD WAR II ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Professor R V Jones THE EARLY PR OPERATIONS by Air Chf Mshl Sir Neil Wheeler SPITFIRE OPERATIONS by Air Mshl Sir Alfred Ball MOSQUITO OPERATIONS by AVM Frank Dodd THE CAMERAS by Flt Lt George Parry PROCESSING AND PRINTING by Mr Ray Dando THE EARLY DAYS OF INTERPRETING by Mr Douglas Kendall THE CENTRAL INTERPRETATION UNIT by Wg Cdr Alfred Stephenson THE WORK OF THE INTERPRETER by Mrs Diana Cussons THE ROLE OF THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER by Wg Cdr John Weaver Stand-alone paper: DOCUMENTING THE RAF – A PROBLEM IN NEED OF SOLUTION, a stand-alone paper by Prof Robin Higham

Proceedings 11 ‒ 1993 22 June 1992 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 6th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE DIRECTION OF THE AIR POLICY IN THE 1950s AND 1960s by AGM guest speaker, Sir Frank Cooper 5 October 1992 ‒ FLYING TRAINING IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN WAR AND PEACE – a seminar held at RAF Brampton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir John Gingell FLYING TRAINING IN THE RFC 1912-1915 by Dr M Paris CFS AND FLYING TRAINING 1915-35 by Mr J Taylor WG CDR ALLEN AND FLYING TRAINING IN NORTH AMERICA 1917-18 by Grp Capt H Neubroch PILOT ENTRY PORTALS IN THE RAF EXPANSION 1934-39 by Dr A Mansell OVERSEAS FLYING TRAINING – WORLD WAR 2 by Mr E Spridgeon FLYING TRAINING IN INDIA by AVM A D Dick WORLD WAR 2 OPERATIONAL TRAINING by Flt Lt P Jacobs HEAVY CONVERSION TRAINING by Sqn Ldr J Currie FRONT LINE OTU IN EGYPT by Air Mshl Sir Patrick Dunn PILOT TRAINING 1945-92 by Sqn Ldr M Wylie Supplementary paper: THE TRAINING OF A BOMBER PILOT 1943 by John Chatterton

Proceedings 12 ‒ 1994 21 June 1993 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 7th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB WORLD WAR I AND THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by AGM guest speaker, Mr John Terraine Stand-alone papers: REFLECTIONS ON THE JOINT USAF HISTORICAL FOUNDATION/RAF HISTORICAL SOCIETY AIR POWER HISTORY SYMPOSIUM held in Washington, DC 9/10 September 1993 by Cecil James A MONOGRAPH by Sqn Ldr Philip H Saxon. (A personal reflection on the RAF’s failure to apply the lessons of WW I prior to WW II) THE OTHER STORY OF THE RAF ‘Y’ SERVICE by Sidney Goldberg Address at the thanksgiving service for the life of Marshal of the RAF Sir Dermot Boyle given by Marshal of the RAF Sir Denis Spotswood at St Clement Dane’s Church on 23 June 1993

Proceedings 13 – 1994 25 October 1993 ‒ INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris POLITICAL OVERVIEW by Dr Philip Towle THE BORNEO REBELLION & INDONESIAN MILITARY CONFRONTATION AGAINST MALAYSIA by Brigadier A E D Smith THE RAF CONTRIBUTION by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee THE SINGAPORE BASE by Mr Cecil James RAF OPERATIONS IN BORNEO by AVM G C Lamb A STATION COMMANDER’S VIEW by Air Chf Mshl Sir Robert Freer HELICOPTER SUPPORT by AVM J W Price AIR DEFENCE AND OFFENSIVE SUPPORT by AVM D E Hawkins DETERRENCE: THE BOMBER CONTRIBUTION by Mr Humphrey Wynn

Journal 14 – 1995 4 July 1994 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 8th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB ETHICS, DETERRENCE AND STRATEGIC BOMBING by AGM guest speaker, Mr John Terraine The address given by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Graydon at the Memorial Service for Air Chf Mshl Sir John Thomson

Journal 15 – 1995 7 November 1994 – THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Frederick Sowrey THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT; THE FORMATIVE YEARS TO 1946 by AVM D A Pocock THE ROYAL AIR FORCE’S LOCALLY-RAISED GROUND FORCES, 1922-1960 by Gp Capt K M Oliver THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT 1947-1967 by Gp Capt M K Batt THE ROYAL AIR FORCE REGIMENT 1967 TO THE PRESENT by Air Cdre M S Witherow 12 June 1995 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 9th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE WRITING OF AIR FORCE HISTORY by AGM guest speaker, Denis Richards The address given by Air Chf Mshl Sir Frederick Rosier at the Memorial Service for Air Chf Mshl Sir Edmund Hudleston

Journal 16 – 1996 20 October 1995 – AIR LEADERSHIP IN WAR ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine The Higher Direction of War: WORLD WAR II – ALLIED AND NATIONAL COMMAND by Dr G V Orange THE FALKLANDS – NATIONAL COMMAND by AVM G A Chesworth THE GULF WAR – COALITION COMMAND by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine Tactical Command ‒ Theatre/Wing: INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION by AVM G C Lamb THE GULF WAR by Air Mshl I D MacFadyen Tactical Command ‒ Squadron: WORLD WAR II by Wg Cdr R P Beamont THE FALKLANDS by AVM P T Squire THE GULF WAR by Gp Capt G L Torpy Stand-alone papers: AIRMEN’S CROSS by AVM B H Newton (regarding the memorial near Stonehenge) THE UNSUNG TUNG SONG by Ron Lovell and Hugh Campbell. (An account of the movements of the RAFA Tung Song, Dec 41-Mar 42) FERRY COMMAND IN HISTORY by Carl A Christie

Journal 16A – 1996 24 October 1995 – DEFENDING NORTHERN SKIES, 1915-1995 ‒ a seminar held at, and in conjunction with, the University of Newcastle Chairman: AVM A F C ‘Sandy’ Hunter THE ZEPPELIN MENACE – PERCEPTIONS & RESPONSES 1907-16 by Prof Max Hammerton AIR DEFENCE AGAINST THE ZEPPELIN 1915-17 by Robert Jackson AIR DEFENCE IN THE NORTH – THE AIR DEFENCE SYSTEM by Derek Wood ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCES OF THE NORTH by Philip Annis DEFENCE AGAINST THE INTRUDERS 1940-45 by Robert Jackson A BROAD MARGIN – THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN NORTH OF WATFORD by Dr Vincent Orange FROM SPITFIRE & MOSQUITO TO HUNTER & JAVELIN by Air Mshl Sir Peter Bairsto UK C&R SYSTEM FROM WWII TO ROTOR AND BEYOND by Air Mshl Sir Alec Morris FROM LIGHTNING TO F-4 by Air Cdre Ian McBride TORNADO F3 AND BEYOND by Air Cdre Martin Widdowson

Journal 17 – 1996 10 June 1996 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 10th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT AND EXPERIENCE OF OFFICIAL MILITARY HISTORY by AGM guest speaker, Dr Noble Frankland Stand-alone papers: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING CLUB by Gp Capt R E G Brittain LAWRENCE OF ARABIA: ROSS AND SHAW OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by L S Rivett ANGELS AND THE AOC by Prof Max Hammerton. (A reflection on Dowding’s conduct of the Battle of Britain and on his book Twelve Legions of Angels) THE KILLING OF ADMIRAL YAMAMOTO by A E F Richardson

Journal 17A – 1997 21 October 1996 – A HISTORY OF NAVIGATION IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE ‒ a seminar held, in conjunction with the Royal Institute of Navigation, at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss THE EARLY YEARS by Mr David Page BETWEEN THE WARS by Flt Lt Alec Ayliffe THE EPIC FLIGHTS by Wg Cdr C G ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Sqn Ldr Philip Saxon THE ARIES FLIGHTS by Gp Capt David Broughton DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EARLY 1950s by AVM Jack Furner FROM THE ‘60s TO THE ‘80s by Air Cdre Norman Bonnor THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE by Air Cdre Bill Tyack DICKIE’ RICHARDSON’S CONTRIBUTION TO RAF NAVIGATION by Humphrey Wynn

Journal 17B - 1998 24 April 1997 – TSR2 WITH HINDSIGHT – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: MRAF Sir Michael Beetham SETTING THE SCENE by Wg Cdr R P Beamont THE HISTORY OF THE PROJECT AND THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENT by Gp Capt W A Mears A SYSTEM STUDY OF TSR2 by Wg Cdr G B Wilson TSR2 AND WHITEHALL by Rt Hon Sir Frank Cooper POLITICS OVER STRATEGY – Australia’s Rejection of TSR2 by Phil Strickland A PROJECT OVERVIEW by Sir Frederick Page DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TSR2 AIRFRAME by B O Heath TSR2 – A WORM’S EYE VIEW OF EVENTS by A T F Simmons THE ENGINE FOR TSR2 by J D Wragg AVIONIC SYSTEMS FOR TSR2 by C M Stewart FERRANTI AND TSR2 by Sir Donald McCallum THE COMPUTER SYSTEM by Peter Hearne AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM by Douglas Gemmell FLYING TSR2 by Wg Cdr J L Dell HAD TSR2 SURVIVED by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine ENVOI by Sir George Edwards and Dr Norman Barfield

Journal 18 - 1998 10 June 1997 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 11th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB SOME REFLECTIONS by AGM guest speaker, Rt Hon Lord Merlyn-Rees 9 September 1997 – SOUTH ARABIA AND THE WITHDRAWAL FROM ADEN – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: MRAF Sir Michael Beetham THE POLITICAL IMPERATIVES by the late Donal McCarthy (read by AVM Nigel Baldwin) THE UNIFIED COMMAND IN ADEN by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee THE RADFAN CAMPAIGNS AND INTERNAL SECURITY IN ADEN by Lt-Col Sir Julian Paget AIR – THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENT by Air Mshl Sir John Kemball STRIKE/AIR DEFENCE/RECCE AND MARITIME by Gp Capt J T Jennings HELICOPTER OPERATIONS by Gp Capt C A E Simons THEATRE TRANSPORT by Wg Cdr S Hitchen THE TECHNICIANS’ BURDEN by Sqn Ldr M Murden PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING THE WITHDRAWAL by Air Mshl Sir Frederick Sowrey THE NAVY’S CONTRIBUTION – TASK FORCE 318 by RAdm R I T Hogg Supplementary Paper THE LAST YEAR IN ADEN – THE ROYAL NAVY by VAdm Sir John Martin The address given by Air Chf Mshl Sir Thomas Prickett at the Memorial Service for Air Chf Mshl Sir Denis Smallwood

Journal 19 ‒ 1999 23 June 1998 ‒ THE 12th AGM, HELD AT THE RAF CLUB (the Minutes were not published in the Journal) ADDRESS by Air Chf Mshl Sir Richard Johns, Chief of the Air Staff, as the AGM guest speaker 28 October 1997 ‒ LOGISTICS SUPPORT – a seminar held at HQ Support Command, RAF Brampton- Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Alcock THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS LOGISTIC ORGANISATION by Gp Capt Peter Dye RAF LOGISTICS PLANNING IN THE INTER-WAR YEARS: AN INTRODUCTION by Prof Robin Higham THE LOGISTICS OF SUPPORT FOR THE SECOND WORLD WAR LAND-AIR CAMPAIGN by Humphrey Wynn THE DECLINE OF MOBILITY: THE RAF AND DEPLOYED OPERATIONS SINCE 1945 by Dr Sebastian Ritchie DEPLOYED OPERATIONS IN THE COLD WAR by Gp Capt David Packman LOGISTICS SUPPORT IN THE GULF WAR by Air Cdre Paul Crotty LOGISTICS IN THE POST COLD WAR ERA by Gp Capt Robin Springett LOGISTICS LESSONS FROM THE PAST DEPLOYED OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Peter Dye 11 February 1998 ‒ 1998 Slessor Air Power Lecture delivered at Chatham House: SIR JOHN SLESSOR AND THE PREVENTION OF WAR by Prof Sir Michael Howard Notice: PRESENTATION, ON 11 FEBRUARY 1998, BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE AIR LEAGUE, LORD TEBBIT, OF A GOLD MEDAL TO THE RAF HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO MARK ‘THE LATTER’S OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE AIMS OF THE LEAGUE’

Journal 20 ‒ 1999 26 March 1998 – TRAINING IN PEACE FOR WAR – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Andrew Wilson TRAINING THE BOMBER FORCE FOR WWII by AVM Michael Robinson TAKING THE ‘BATTLE’ INTO BATTLE by Rupert Parkhouse TRAINING THE V-FORCE FOR ITS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY ROLES – LOW LEVEL TACTICS AGAINST THE SOVIET BLOC by AVM Nigel Baldwin VULCAN OPERATIONS IN THE FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN by Wg Cdr C G ‘Jeff’ Jefford BATTLE MANAGEMENT IN OPERATIONAL TRAINING by Gp Capt Nigel Walpole LOW-LEVEL OPERATIONAL TRAINING ‒ THE IMPACT OF THE RED FLAG EXERCISES by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork TORNADO GR 1 – THE GULF – TRAINING AND TACTICS by Gp Capt Jeremy Witts HARRIER – CONTEMPORARY AIR POWER by Wg Cdr Andy Golledge Stand-alone paper: THE WORKING-UP TRIP by Joe Owen-King (An account of a familiarisation trip in a submarine by a Liberator crew.) The address given by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Graydon at the Memorial Service for Air Chf Mshl Sir Frederick Rosier on 14 November 1998

Journal 20A ‒ 1999 9 December 1998 ‒ THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN GERMANY, 1945-1993 – a seminar held jointly with Defence Studies (RAF) at The Joint Services Command and Staff College, Bracknell Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Andrew Wilson HISTORICAL BACKGROUND by Gp Capt W J Taylor A CONTINENTAL COMMITMENT by Gp Capt S W Peach THE PRINCIPLES OF AIR DEFENCE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Roger Palin DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS by Air Mshl I D Macfadyen GROUND BASED AIR DEFENCE by Wg Cdr J G Evans AN OPERATIONS OVERVIEW by Sir Andrew Wilson STRIKE OPERATIONS by Air Cdre P J Wilkinson ATTACK OPERATIONS by Air Cdre M G F White RECONNAISSANCE by Air Cdre G R Pitchfork INTELLIGENCE by Gp Capt M R Killick THE EARLY YEARS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT by Dr Christina Goulter HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE by Sebastian Cox

Journal 21 ‒ 2000 30 March 1999 ‒ RAF OPERATIONS 1948-1961: MALAYA – KOREA – KUWAIT – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Knight MALAYA: THE ORIGINS OF THE MALAYAN EMERGENCY by Gp Capt Ian Madelin MALAYA ‒THE START OF THE EMERGENCY by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE GROUND WAR IN MALAYA 1948-60 by Gp Capt Kingsley Oliver OFFENSIVE AIR OPERATIONS BEAUFIGHTER/BRIGAND by AVM Michael Robinson LINCOLNs – 100 SQUADRON MALAYA 1950 by J R Burgess VENOMS AND CANBERRAS by Air Cdre G S Cooper SUNDERLANDs – FAR EAST FLYING BOAT WING by Gp Capt G H Gilbert RECONNAISSANCE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Knight AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS – VALETTAS by Flt Lt Maurice Rogers HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN MALAYA 1950-1960 by Sqn Ldr H H J Browning KOREA: ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE KOREAN WAR by Air Cdre Henry Probert WITH THE RAAF IN KOREA by AVM John Price FIGHTER OPERATIONS WITH THE USAF by Gp Capt R J F Dickinson SUNDERLAND OPERATIONS IN KOREA by AVM G A Chesworth CASUALTY EVACUATION BY AIR by AVM W J Herrington KUWAIT: OPERATION VANTAGE – KUWAIT 1961 by AVM John Herrington MOUNTING THE RESPONSE by AVM L W G Gill EXPERIENCES OF A SQUADRON ENGINEER by Sqn Ldr M Murden THE NAVAL DIMENSION by David Brown CANBERRAS – A NAVIGATOR’s VIEW by Wg Cdr T F Hayward THE ARMY’s PART IN OPERATION VANTAGE by Miss Alex Ward PROBLEMS AND REQUIREMENTS OF A MOBILE HUNTER SQUADRON IN MIDDLE EAST COMMAND by Sqn Ldr M J Goodfellow Stand-alone paper: IN THE ‘WHIRLIGIG OF WHITEHALL’: MRAF LORD TEDDER OF GLENGUIN AS ‘CHIEF AUNT SALLY’ IN ‘THE HOUSE OF SHAME’, 1946-1949 by Dr Vincent Orange, the guest speaker at the 12th AGM held on 22 June 1999 (the minutes of which were not published in the Journal)

Journal 22 – 2000 5 October 1999 ‒ THE EVOLUTION OF AIR TRANSPORT – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss NEVER PEACEFUL ‒ THE MILITARY AIRLIFT ROLE by Gp Capt Richard Bates THE BOMBER TRANSPORT AND THE BAGHDAD AIR MAIL by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford FERIO FERENDO ‒ THE ARRIVAL OF TRANSPORTCOMMAND by Gp Capt Tony Stephens AIR TRANSPORT AND SUPPLY IN THE BURMA WAR by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE BERLIN AIRLIFT by Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss TACTICAL AIRLIFT: BATTLEFIELD AND HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS by Wg Cdr Willie Dobson VIP OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Marcus Wills HERCULES – THIRTY-THREE YEARS OF RAF SERVICE by Wg Cdr Paul Oborn Supplementary paper: THE FAR EAST TRANSPORT WING IN THE EARLY 1950s by Flt Lt Maurice Rogers Stand-alone papers: THE MARCH RETREAT OF 1918 ‒ THE LAST BATTLE OF THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS by Wg Cdr P J Daybell ‒ 1998 two Air Forces Award paper DOWDING AND HIS MANPOWER. THE CASE OF HURRICANE AND SPITFIRE PILOTS OF THE RAF AND ITS RESERVES IN 11 GROUP by Dr Tony Mansell AIR OBSERVER TRAINING, 1939-40 by Air Cdre J L Mitchell Journal 23 – 2001 18 April 2000 ‒ COLD WAR INTELLIGENCE GATHERING – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Armitage BRIXMIS ‒ HISTORY AND ROLES by Gp Capt Richard Bates RAF ELEMENT, BRIXMIS, 1956-59 ‒ ORGANISATION AND OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Hans Neubroch BRIXMIS ‒ OPERATIONAL PLANNING AND TOURING IN THE 1970s AND 1980s by Gp Capt S A Wrigley BRIXMIS – THE VIEW FROM WHITEHALL by John N L Morrison AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC RECONNAISSANCE, 1948 TO 1989 by Wg Cdr David Paton, assisted by MAcr Derek Oliver PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Philip Rodgers AIRBORNE SENSORS AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN IMAGERY ANALYSIS by Gp Capt Geoffrey Oxlee and Wg Cdr David Oxlee Supplementary papers: CHURCHILL’S BOMB PLOT by Wg Cdr J H Dyer RAF ELEMENT BRIXMIS: FURTHER RECOLLECTIONS OF OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES (1957- 59) by Gp Capt Hans Neubroch Stand-alone papers: IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT. DON’T EVEN LOOK AT IT! by Wg Cdr George Wilson. (The RFC’s pre-war introduction of a system of maintaining records of aircraft repairs and routine servicing) BIGGLES ‒ THE LAST ACE OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR? by Air Cdre Peter Dye

Journal 24 ‒ 2001 28 June 2000 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 14th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN TRANSITION, 1962-1965 by AGM guest speaker, Sir Michael Quinlan Stand-alone papers: BOSNIA 1992-1995 – A CASE STUDY IN THE DENIAL OF THE ADVANTAGE CONFERRED BY AIR SUPERIORITY by Sqn Ldr S Harpum ‒ 1999 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE INFLUENCE OF SPACE POWER ON HISTORY (1944-1998) by Capt John Shaw ‒ 1998 USAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE DE HAVILLAND VENOM WITH No 8 SQN IN THE MIDDLE EAST by Air Vice-Marshal L W Phipps SQN LDR G D GRAHAM DSO MBE by Frank Card. (The career of a pioneer in the field of mountain rescue) THE RAF HERALDRY TRUST WITHOUT COMMENT ‒ Extracts from two reports on recent accidents (Printed by order of the Chief of the Air Staff – June 1941). WAS THIS THE FIRST EVER PILOT JOKE? Journal 25 ‒ 2001 18 October 2000 ‒ HELICOPTERS IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Timothy Garden SETTING THE SCENE by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF TEST FLYING AND RAF HELICOPTER OPERATIONS, 1954-79 by Gp Capt John L Price LATER SUPPORT HELICOPTER OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Peter Wilson ASPECTS OF SUPPORT HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN HONG KONG by Wg Cdr Fred Hoskins SUPPORT HELICOPTER OPERATIONS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, SEP 71-DEC 73 by Sqn Ldr Tom Porteous AIR MANOEUVRE DEVELOPMENT by AVM David Niven SEARCH AND RESCUE IN THE RAF by Gp Capt Ian McLuskie TRAINING by Gp Capt Simon Coy THE PROCUREMENT OF HELICOPTERS AND THE OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS BACKGROUND TO THE RAF’S SEARCH AND RESCUE SEA KING by Wg Cdr Fred Hoskins HELICOPTER VIBRATION ENGINEERING IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 1963-92 by Wg Cdr Noel Trigg

Journal 26 – 2002 11 April 2001 ‒ THE RAF AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS, 1960-1998 – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir John Willis SUMMARY OF THE PREVIOUS RAFHS SEMINAR ON THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH NUCLEAR DETERRENT 1945-60 by AVM Michael Robinson (see Proceedings 7) A VIEW FROM WHITEHALL by Peter Hudson THOR by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings BOMBER COMMAND AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIs by Dr Len Scott V-FORCE OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT AND READINESS by Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes THE ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS IN THE NUCLEAR AGE by Stephen Rickitt NUCLEAR WEAPONS TRAINING – GROUNDCREW by Sqn Ldr Michael Hely NUCLEAR WEAPONS TRAINING – AIRCREW by Sqn Ldr Ralph Devereux ENGINEERING ON A NUCLEAR STRIKE SQUADRON by Gp Capt W J Taylor FINAL SURVEY by Prof Lawrence Freedman Supplementary papers: AFTERTHOUGHTS – various contributors THE RAF NUCLEAR DECADES by Humphrey Wynn RECOLLECTIONS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND No 94 MU, RAF BARNHAM by Air Cdre M J Allisstone NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN CYPRUS IN 1962 by Gp Capt Hugh Verity BOMBER COMMAND AIRCRAFT STRUCTURAL DEFECTS AND THE USE OF NDT IN THE EARLY 1960s by Sqn Ldr Michael Murden Journal 27 – 2002 5 June 2001 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 15th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB BOMBER HARRIS – A NEW LOOK by AGM guest speaker, Air Cdre Henry Probert Stand-alone papers: BALLOONS: WHAT HAVE THEY EVER DONE FOR US? by Sqn Ldr A Riches ‒ 2000 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper FLYING FIRST GENERATION JET FIGHTERS IN THE RAF by AVM Ron Dick A CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS: THE RAFVR, FLYING CLUBS AND THE CIVIL AIR GUARD by Dr Tony Mansell THE GREAT CARRIER CONTROVERSY 1964-65 – A DEFENCE PLANNER’S RECOLLECTIONS by Gp Capt Hans Neubroch CONSOLIDATED CONTENTS LIST, VOLS 1-25 plus BRACKNELL PAPERS and SUNDRY STAND ALONE PUBLICATIONS CONSOLIDATED LIST OF BOOKS REVIEWED, VOLS 1-25 In Memoriam ‒ Air Mshl Sir Kenneth Hayr by Gp Capt Ian Madelin

Journal 27A – 2002 24 October 2001 – THE BIRTH OF TORNADO – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Anthony Skingsley ERODING THE REQUIREMENT by Gp Capt John Heron AIR STAFF STUDIES AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND by Anthony S Bennell EVOLUTION OF THE TORNADO PROJECT by Dr William Stewart TORNADO/MRCA ‒ ESTABLISHING COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS AND AIRFRAME TECHNOLOGY by Gerrie Willox RB 199 – THE ENGINE FOR TORNADO by Dr Gordon Lewis TORNADO IDS AVIONIC SYSTEM by Peter Hearne THE MUNICH SCENE by Alan Thornber DEVELOPMENT FLYING by Paul Millett INTO SERVICE ‒ TRAINING & OPERATIONS by AVM R P O’Brien CONCLUSIONS ‒ INDUSTRY by John Wragg CONCLUSIONS ‒ PROCUREMENT ORGANISATION by Dr William Stewart CONCLUSIONS ‒ AN RAF VIEWPOINT by AVM R P O’Brien Supplementary Papers: A FOOTNOTE – COULD A DEVELOPED BUCCANEER HAVE FILLED THE BILL? by Peter Hearne OBSERVATIONS FROM THE OR COALFACE by Gp Capt John Heron AIR DENSITY MEASUREMENT TRANSDUCERS FOR TORNADO by Talbot K Green CALIBRATION OF PRESSURE SENSORS by Robin J Baker

Journal 28 ‒ 2003 10 April 2002 ‒ ELECTRONIC WARFARE – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Frederick Sowrey A NEW LOOK AT ‘THE WIZARD WAR’ by Dr Alfred Price 100 GROUP ‒ ‘CONFOUND AND . . .’ by AVM Jack Furner 100 GROUP ‒ FIGHTER OPERATIONS by Martin Streetly D-DAY AND AFTER by Dr Alfred Price EW IN THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS – LINCOLNS TO VALIANTS by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford EW DURING THE V-FORCE ERA by Wg Cdr Rod Powell RAF EW TRAINING 1945-1966 by Martin Streetly RAF EW TRAINING 1966-94 by Wg Cdr Dick Turpin SOME THOUGHTS ON PLATFORM PROTECTION SINCE THE GULF WAR by Flt Lt Larry Williams Supplementary paper: SERGEANTS THREE – RECOLLECTIONS OF No 199 Sqn, 1952-53 by the Editor

Journal 29 – 2003 12 June 2002 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 16th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB BATTLE OF BRITAIN DAY by AGM guest speaker, Dr Alfred Price Stand-alone papers: WHAT WAS THE IMPACT OF THE LUFTWAFFE’S ‘TIP AND RUN’ BOMBING ATTACKS, MARCH 1942-JUNE 1943? by Sqn Ldr Chris Goss ‒ 2001 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper ON THE GROUND BUT ON THE AIR by Charles Mitchell. (A personal account of early involvement with the introduction of CH and CHL radar) ST-OMER APPEAL UPDATE by Air Cdre Peter Dye LIFE IN THE SHADOWS by Sqn Ldr Stanley Booker. (A personal account of service on secondment to the SIS in the field in Germany, 1951-57) THE MUNICIPAL LIAISON SCHEME by Wg Cdr C G Jefford

Journal 29A – 2003 23 October 2002 ‒ ROYAL AIR FORCE RESERVE AND AUXILIARY FORCES – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: AVM Barry Newton AIR FORCE RESERVES AND AUXILIARIES, 1912 TO MUNICH by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE, 1936-39 by Dr Tony Mansell THE AUXILIARY AIR FORCE IN WW II by Christopher Shores THE UNIVERSITY AIR SQUADRONS IN WW II by Wg Cdr Gerry Margiotta POST-WAR RAF RESERVES TO 1960 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE RAuxAF TO 1960 by Sqn Ldr Tony Freeman RECOLLECTIONS OF A REGULAR WITH A POST-WAR RAuxAF FIGHTER SQUADRON by Air Cdre Ian Atkinson THE RAuxAF REGIMENT by Flt Lt Shane Guy MEDICS AND MOVERS IN THE GULF WAR by Sqn Ldr Jon Pote Supplementary papers: THE DEMISE OF THE AUXILIARY FIGHTER SQUADRONS REVISITED by the Editor MARITIME HEADQUARTERS UNITS OF THE ROYAL AUXILIARY AIR FORCE by Sqn Ldr Bruce Blanche FORTY YEARS IN VOLUNTEER SERVICE by Gp Capt Peter Harris THE ROYAL HONG KONG AUXILIARY AIR FORCE by AVM Geoffrey Cairns RECOLLECTIONS OF CAMBRIDGE UAS AND GLIDING IN THE ATC by Gp Capt Hans Neubroch RESERVE SCHOOL RECOLLECTIONS by C Nepean Bishop

Journal 30 – 2004 8 April 2003 ‒ THE RAF IN THE FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss THE VIEW FROM THE MOD by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE ALERT MEASURES COMMITTEE by AVM John Price A VIEW FROM THE HQ AT NORTHWOOD I by Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss A VIEW FROM THE HQ AT NORTHWOOD II by AVM George Chesworth THE VIEW FROM BDLS WASHINGTON by AVM Ron Dick ASCENSION ISLAND – GATEWAY TO THE FALKLANDS by Gp Capt Jeremy Price RAF LYNEHAM AND THE AIR BRIDGE by AVM Clive Evans NIMROD OPERATIONS AT ASCENSION ISLAND by Gp Capt David Pierce VULCAN OPERATIONS by Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss CHINOOK OPERATIONS – RAF ODIHAM by AVM Sandy Hunter CHINOOK OPERATIONS – No 18 Sqn by AVM Tony Stables MARITIME OPERATIONS FROM ASCENSION by Wg Cdr Derek Straw RAF REGIMENT PARTICIPATION IN OPERATION CORPORATE by Gp Capt Kingsley Oliver LOGISTICS AND THE FALKLANDS CAMPAIGN by Air Cdre Peter Dye HARRIER OPERATIONS – RAF GÜTERSLOH by Air Chf Mshl Sir Richard Johns HARRIER OPERATIONS – No 1 Sqn by Air Chf Mshl Sir Peter Squire CLOSING REMARKS by MRAF Sir Michael Beetham

Journal 31 ‒ 2004 10 June 2003 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 17th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB RECOLLECTIONS OF A SECRETARY OF STATE FOR DEFENCE by AGM guest speaker, The Rt Hon The Lord Healey Stand-alone paper: HOW DECISIVE WAS THE ROLE OF ALLIED AIR POWER IN THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC, 1941- 1945? by Sqn Ldr S I Richards ‒ 2002 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper Derek Wood – An Obituary 12 October 2002 ‒ Proceedings of THE BOMBER COMMAND ASSOCIATION 60TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss INTRODUCTION by MRAF Sir Michael Beetham SETTING THE SCENE, 1917-42 by Air Cdre Andrew Lambert HARRIS AND HIS MEN by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT by J Sebastian Cox SURPRISES by Air Cdre Henry Probert AUTUMN 1944-MAY 1945 by J Sebastian Cox PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS by: Wg Cdr Russ Jeffs Sqn Ldr Tony Iveson AVM Jack Furner THE BOMBING OF GERMANY IN WORLD WAR II – A REAPPRAISAL by Prof Richard Overy

Journal 32 – 2004 21 October 2003 ‒ AIR POWER – ANGLO-AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES – a seminar held jointly with the USAF Historical Foundation at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairmen: Air Chf Mshl Sir Richard Johns and General W Y Smith THE TAIL TO TOOTH RATIO – ROYAL FLYING CORPS AND AIR SERVICE CO-OPERATION IN MAINTENANCE TRAINING DURING WW I by Dr Roger G. Miller THE RAF AND THE US ARMY AIR CORPS BETWEEN THE WARS by Air Cdre Henry Probert RAF-USAAF CO-OPERATION IN AIR SUPPORT IN NORTH AFRICA DURING WW II by Dr Daniel Mortensen RISING FROM THE ASHES: ALLIED AIR POWER AND AIR SUPPORT FOR THE 14th ARMY IN BURMA, 1943-1945 by Dr Sebastian Ritchie THE THOR IRBM by Dr Jacob Neufeld RAF-USAF AIR POWER IN GERMANY DURING THE COLD WAR by AVM Stuart Peach RAF-USAF CO-ORDINATION FOR COMMAND AND CONTROL IN THE 1990-91 PERSIAN GULF WAR by Dr Mark D Mandeles AN RAF COMMANDER’S VIEW OF CO-OPERATION IN THE 1990-91 GULF WAR by Air Chf Mshl Sir William Wratten Supplementary papers: THE JOINT COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW OF RAF/USAF OPERATIONS IN THE 1991 GULF WAR by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine ON EXCHANGE WITH THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ‒ A 1970’s PERSPECTIVE by Gp Capt Richard Bates OPERATION TORCH – A SPECIFIC INSTANCE OF RAF/USAAF CO-OPERATION condensed from the memoirs of AVM Sir Laurence Sinclair by the Editor John Terraine – An Obituary

Journal 33 – 2005 7 April 2004 ‒ MARITIME OPERATIONS – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Stear THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH MARITIME AIR POWER DURING WW I by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford COASTAL COMMAND'S ANTI-SHIPPING OPERATIONS IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1940-1945 by Dr Christina Goulter BLENHEIMS AND BEAUFORTS by Flt Lt Roy Nesbit THE STRIKE WINGS OF RAF COASTAL COMMAND by Sqn Ldr Pat Fry MET RECCE by Wg Cdr Bryn Lewis A NAVAL VIEW OF MARITIME AIR POWER by Cdre Toby Elliott MARITIME PATROL IN THE PISTON ENGINE ERA by Air Cdre Bill Tyack NIMROD by Sqn Ldr Ian Coleman MARITIME STRIKE/ATTACK OPERATIONS by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork LAND-BASED AIR DEFENCE OF THE FLEET by Air Cdre Ian McBride

Journal 34 – 2005 30 June 2004 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 18th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE SECRET STATE: OLD AND NEW by AGM guest speaker, Prof Peter Hennessy Stand-alone papers: THE DAM BUSTERS RAID – SUCCESS OR SIDESHOW? by Wg Cdr T M Webster ‒ 2003 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper AN AIRMAN AT ARNHEM by Wg Cdr Geoffrey Richards. (A personal account of being dropped at Arnhem with the intention of providing an on-site GCI facility; this plan was not realised and he was among those fortunate enough to be evacuated) THE FLIGHT TO THE NORTH – NO 2 SQN’S MOVE FROM FARNBOROUGH TO MONTROSE IN 1913 by Wg Cdr George Wilson THE MALTA AVIATION MUSEUM by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Armitage POST WAR AIR SEA RESCUE ‒ THE BELL ROCK INCIDENTS by Donald Smith FRATRICIDE – AN OVERVIEW OF FRIENDLY FIRE INCIDENTS IN THE 20TH CENTURY by Wg Cdr C G Jefford Roy Walker – An Obituary

Journal 35 – 2005 30 October 2004 – SUPPLY AN AIR POWER ENABLER – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon THE EARLY DAYS by Wg Cdr Larry O’Hara SUPPLY COMES OF AGE by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings SUPPLY: TWO WARTIME EXAMPLES by Air Cdre Henry Probert EXPLOSIVES by Wg Cdr Mike Wooldridge NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND No 94 MU, RAF BARNHAM by Air Cdre Mike Allisstone THE CLOSURE OF No 11 MU, RAF CHILMARK by Wg Cdr Mike Wooldridge FUELS by Air Cdre Andy Spinks THE SUPPLY BRANCH AND MOBILITY by Wg Cdr David Powell MOVEMENTS AND THE SUPPLY BRANCH by Gp Capt Duncan Grant POST-WW II IMPERATIVES FOR SUPPLY by Air Cdre Mike Allisstone THE ELECTRONIC ERA by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings SUPPORT FOR THE RAF IN THE 21ST CENTURY by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Alcock FULL CIRCLE by Air Cdre Nick Morris SUPPORT FOR THE RAF IN THE 21st CENTURY – A REBUTTAL by Air Cdre M J Allisstone AIR MOBILITY – A game for 500 or more players

Journal 35A – 2005 22 March 2005 – THE RAF HARRIER STORY – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine EARLY HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AND EMERGING STAFF TARGETS by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine JET LIFT by Prof John F Coplin EVOLUTION OF THE PEGASUS VECTORED THRUST ENGINE by Dr Gordon Lewis THE ORIGINS OF JET-LIFT AT KINGSTON by Ralph Hooper FLYING THE OPTIONS – THE SC1 AND P1127 by John Farley THE KESTREL EVALUATION SQUADRON by Air Cdre D M Scrimgeour CONVERTING THE RAF TO THE HARRIER by AVM Peter Dodworth THE COLD WAR CONCEPTS OF OPERATION FOR THE RAF HARRIER FORCE by Gp Capt Jock Heron LOGISTICS SUPPORT by AVM Pat O’Reilly SHAPING LATER MOD POLICY by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine OPERATIONS – GR3 by Air Chf Mshl Sir Peter Squire OPERATIONS IN THE HARRIER GR7 by Gp Capt Andy Golledge THE JOINT FORCE HARRIER CONCEPT by Cdre Bill Covington Supplementary papers: THE HARRIER AND THE MINISTRY OF TECHNOLOGY, 1967-1969 by AM Sir Reginald Harland A V/STOL FLIGHT CONTROL JOURNEY ENABLED BY RAE SCIENTISTS by John Farley

Journal 36 – 2006 8 June 2005 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 19th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB GERMAN AVIATION TECHNOLOGY IN WW II by AGM guest speaker, Capt Eric Brown Stand-alone papers: OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM ‒ COALITION OPERATIONS by Sqn Ldr Sophy Gardner ‒ 2004 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE POLISH APPRENTICES AT HALTON by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Armitage THE ORIGINSOF FIGHTER SQUADRON HERALDRY by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE ORIGINS OF AIRCREW WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN by Dr Tony Mansell BOMBS ON VENICE by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork (the March 1945 precision fighter-bomber strike on shipping docked in the Venice lagoon) THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN NORTH RUSSIA – 1941 by Air Cdre Phil Wilkinson

Journal 37 – 2006 15 October 2005 ‒ FLIGHT SAFETY – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Cdre Richie Profit ACCIDENTS – INVESTIGATION, INSTITUTIONS AND ATTITUDES 1910-1918 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE EVOLUTION OF PARACHUTES FOR AIRCREW by AVM Alan Johnson ACCIDENTS – INVESTIGATION, INSTITUTIONS AND ATTITUDES 1919-1945 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford A BRIEF HISTORY OF FLIGHT SAFETY LITERATURE by Stuart Hadaway POST-WAR FLIGHT SAFETY by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings AIRCREW SAFETY – MARTIN-BAKER AND THE RAF by Brian Miller THE POST-WAR CENTRAL FLYING SCHOOL AND FLIGHT SAFETY by AVM Paul Robinson ATTITUDES TOWARDS SAFETY 1950-1980 - A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by AVM George Black RAF BOARDS OF INQUIRY – A CASE HISTORY by Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes

Journal 38 – 2007 12 April 2006 ‒ THE RAF IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE POST-WW II – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Knight THE POST-WAR RAF IN THE MEDITERRANEAN – AN OVERVIEW by Air Cdre Henry Probert THE RAF IN PALESTINE 1948-49 – THE WRONG PLACE, AT THE WRONG TIME by Sqn Ldr Bruce Williamson THEATRE AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS IN THE MID-1950s by Flt Lt Denis Burles OPERATION MUSKETEER – A PERSONAL VIEW by AVM George Black THE RAF REGIMENT by Air Cdre Micky Witherow MALTA by Air Cdre J C ‘Ian’ Atkinson GIBRALTAR 1945-82 by Air Cdre Henry Probert OPERATING FROM ‘THE ROCK’ by Wg Cdr Clive Blount CYPRUS AND CENTO by AVM Nigel Baldwin CYPRUS – CANBERRAS by Wg Cdr Barry Dove CYPRUS AIR DEFENCE- SOME REFLECTIONS by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Graydon CYPRUS AND THE VULCAN by AVM Nigel Baldwin Op PULSATOR – BUCCANEERS OVER BEIRUT by Air Cdre Ben Laite Supplementary papers: THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AS A TRAINING ARENA by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford Stand-alone paper: OPERATION SHALLOW – KINESHMA; 57°40'N, 42°20'E by Wg Cdr Geoffrey Richards; edited by Gp Capt Ian Madelin. (A personal account of the erection and testing of aircraft – Hurricanes and Airacobras – supplied to the Russians, Oct 41-Feb 42)

Journal 39 – 2007 21 June 2006 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 20th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE TURBOJET by AGM guest speaker, Ian Whittle Stand-alone papers: ARE THE EXPERIENCES OF THE RAF SERVICING COMMANDOS DURING WORLD WAR TWO RELEVANT TO THE SUPPORT OF CURRENT RAF EXPEDITIONARY OPERATIONS? by Wg Cdr S D Ellard ‒ 2005 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE AIR ASPECTS OF THE SUEZ CAMPAIGN OF 1956 ‒ a reprint of the content of Proceedings 3 (which, in hard copy, had used an unsatisfactory font and lacked photographs) to fill an obvious, but intentional, gap in the content of Journal 38 Chairman: Keith Kyle SETTING THE SCENE by Keith Kyle THE VIEW FROM WHITEHALL by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee THE SCENE AT THE AIR MINISTRY by Sir Frank Cooper THE PLANNERS’ PERSPECTIVE by Air Chf Mshl Sir Denis Smallwood COMMAND OF THE OPERATION by Air Chf Mshl Sir Thomas Prickett A SQUADRON COMMANDER’S VIEWPOINT by AVM Paul Mallorie AN APPRAISAL OF THE AIR CAMPAIGN by Air Chf Mshl Sir David Lee

Journal 40 – 2007 11 October 2006 ‒ SEARCH AND RESCUE – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Curtiss THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIR/SEA RESCUE ORGANISATION by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork SAILORS IN LIGHT BLUE by Gp Capt J Stephen Fosh THE ASR AIR ORBAT IN WW II by Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford TRAINING AND SURVIVAL AIDS by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork RECOLLECTIONS OF SERVICE WITH ASR SQUADRONS by Flt Lt Tony Richardson MOUNTAIN RESCUE by Frank Card DESERT SURVIVAL TRAINING 1958-60 by Air Cdre Mickey Witherow JUNGLE SURVIVAL TRAINING 1964-65 by Flt Lt Roger Annett THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SEARCH AND RESCUE HELICOPTER by Wg Cdr Peter Chadwick Supplementary paper: THE RAF MOUNT BATTEN EXPERIENCE by Flt Lt Philip Mill

Journal 41 – 2008 According to the routine publication schedule, Journal 41 should have reported the proceedings of the spring 2007 seminar. However, there was no spring seminar in 2007, the Committee opting instead for a field visit to the recently opened National Cold War Exhibition at the RAF Musem’s Cosford site. While this was interesting, it did not produce any material for the Journal. Rather than skip an edition it was decided to recycle some notable papers from early publications that were no longer available from stock. They were: 20 October 1986. THE INTELLIGENCE WAR AND THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by Prof R V Jones 16 March 1987. WORLD WAR II – THE BALANCE SHEET by John Terraine 14 March 1988. THE IMPACT OF THE SANDYS DEFENCE POLICY ON THE ROYAL AIR FORCE by T C G James 29 June 1988. THE POLICY, COMMAND AND DIRECTION OF THE LUFTWAFFE IN WORLD WAR II by Dr Horst Boog 31 October 1988. THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE

Journal 42 – 2008 27 June 2007 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 21st AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE IMPORTANT OMISSIONS OF A ‘SERVICE’ BIOGRAPHY by AGM guest speaker, Anthony Furse (Afterthoughts and amplifications related to the MAP and Air Chf Mshl Sir Wilfrid Freeman by the latter’s nephew and biographer.) Stand-alone papers: STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND’S B-29s DURING THE BERLIN AIRLIFT by Brig-Gen Brian S Gunderson RAF BOMBER COMMAND AND THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, OCTOBER 1962 by Clive Richards THE THOR IRBM – THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE SUBSEQUENT RUN-DOWN OF THE THOR FORCE by John Boyes AIRCREW STATUS IN THE 1940s by Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford THE CREATION OF BRITISH AIRBORNE FORCES AND THE BATTLE OF ARNHEM by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings THE ROYAL, DOMINION AND ALLIED AIR FORCES MISSING RESEARCH AND ENQUIRY SERVICE, 1944-1952 by Stuart Hadaway Air Cdre Henry Probert 1926-2007 – a Eulogy delivered by Sebastian Cox at Kingsdown Crematorium, Swindon on 8 January 2008

Journal 43 – 2008 24 October 2007 ‒ AVIATION MEDICINE – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: AVM Alan Johnson THE GENESIS OF MEDICAL SELECTION TESTS FOR AIRCREW IN THE UNITED KINGDOM by Air Cdre T M Gibson THE RAF INSTITUTE OF AVIATION MEDICINE, 1945-1994 – CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVIATION AND FLIGHT SAFETY by AVM John Ernsting DEVELOPMENT OF BREATHING SYSTEMS – CONTRIBUTIONS OF FLIGHT RESEARCH AND FLIGHT TRIALS by Dr Alistair J F Macmillan THE FIGHT AGAINST G by Wg Cdr N D C Green A SHORT HISTORY OF AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION by Wg Cdr M J Ruth RECOLLECTIONS OF AEROMEDICAL FLYING TRIALS by Surg Cdr Herbert Ellis OPERATION HOTBOX by Air Mshl Sir Geoffrey Dhenin Supplementary paper: CASUALTY EVACUATION 1923 – KOICOL TO BAGHDAD by Wg Cdr C G Jefford

Journal 43A – 2009 8 April 2008 ‒ THE CANBERRA IN THE RAF – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Knight ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT by Bob Fairclough THE EARLY DAYS by AVM John Brownlow ARIES FLIGHTS TO THE NORTH POLE AND OTHER LONG DISTANCE FLIGHTS by Wg Cdr Terry Hayward DEVELOPMENTS FOR THE RAF by Bob Fairclough RECCE CANBERRAS – SOME UNTOLD STORIES by Chris Pocock THE CANBERRA IN FEAF by Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford SECOND LINE ACTIVITIES by Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes THE CANBERRA PR9 by Gp Capt Vernon Harding Reprints of Canberra-related material from earlier publications: RAF GERMANY – OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS – STRIKE by Air Cdre Phil Wilkinson (Journal 20A) RAF EW TRAINING 1966-94 by Wg Cdr Dick Turpin (from Journal 28) CYPRUS – CANBERRAS by Wg Cdr Barry Dove (Journal 38) SUEZ – A SQUADRON COMMANDER’S VIEWPOINT by AVM Paul Mallorie (Journal 39)

Journal 44 – 2009 25 June 2008 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 22nd AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB REFLECTIONS ON HIS TIME AS CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF, 1992-97 by AGM guest speaker, Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Graydon Stand-alone papers: FROM CONINGHAM TO PROJECT CONINGHAM-KEYES: DID BRITISH FORCES RELEARN HISTORICAL AIR-LAND CO-OPERATION LESSONS DURING OPERATION TELIC? by Wg Cdr H Smyth ‒ 2007 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper A LETTER FROM ‘BOMBER’ HARRIS TIGER FORCE AND FLIGHT REFUELLING by Brian Gardner

Journal 45 – 2009 22 October 2008 – UNGUIDED WEAPONS – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir John Kemball RFC BOMBS AND BOMBING 1912-1918 by AVM Peter Dye THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAF BOMBS, 1919-1939 by Stuart Hadaway RAF BOMBS AND BOMBING 1939-1945 by Nina Burls THE DEVELOPMENT OF RAF GUNS AND AMMUNITION FROM WORLD WAR 1 TO THE PRESENT DAY by Anthony G Williams DEFENSIVE GUN ARMAMENT – TURRETS by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford A HISTORY OF AIR-TO-SURFACE ROCKET SYSTEMS by Wg Cdr David Herriot THE ROCKET-FIRING TYPHOONS IN NORMANDY by Dr Alfred Price BRITISH AIR-DROPPED DEPTH CHARGES AND ANTI-SHIP TORPEDOES by Roger Hayward AIRBORNE SEA-MINING OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR TWO by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork THE SCI (Smoke Curtain Installation) by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE MEMORIAL AT NOYERS BOCAGE Tony Richardson – An Obituary

Journal 46 – 2010 8 April 2009 – THE SOFT UNDERBELLY (THE NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN 1943-45) – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir David Cousins THE NORTHERN MEDITERRANEAN 1943-1945 by Wg Cdr Andrew Brookes AIRBORNE FORCES IN THE NORTH MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE OF OPERATIONS by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings DID ALLIED AIR INTERDICTION LIVE UP TO EXPECTATIONS IN THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1944? by Wg Cdr ‘Archie’ Spence THE BALKAN AIR FORCE by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford AIR POWER AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS: THE RAF AND SPECIAL DUTIES IN YUGOSLAVIA, 1941-1945 by Dr Sebastian Ritchie THE RAF IN COUNTER-INSURGENCY WARFARE: BRITISH INTERVENTION IN GREECE, 1944-45 by Sqn Ldr Alexander Zervoudakis and Dr Christina Goulter RAF REGIMENT NORTH MEDITERRANEAN OPERATIONS 1943-1945 by Air Cdre M S Witherow SPECIAL DUTIES OPERATIONS – THE POLISH DIMENSION by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings THE AEGEAN CAMPAIGN – A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE by Tony Ross

Journal 47 – 2010 17 June 2009 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 23rd AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB SIR ARTHUR HARRIS AND SOME MYTHS AND CONTROVERSIES OF THE BOMBER OFFENSIVE by AGM guest speaker, Sebastian Cox Stand-alone papers: AIR POWER AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE OPERATIONS – MALAYA 1948-1960 by Wg Cdr B J Hunt ‒ 2008 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE GREMLIN TASK FORCE (in French Indo-China, 1945) by Air Chf Mshl Sir Walter Cheshire FLYING FOR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN SOUTH EAST ASIA COMMAND: LEGACIES AND REALITIES by Prof Robin Higham THE FLIGHT ENGINEER IN WW II by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford Journal 48 – 2010 21 October 2009 – FROM PALESTINE TO PESHAWAR, 1915 TO DATE – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon ONLY A SIDESHOW? THE RFC AND RAF IN MESOPOTAMIA, 1914-1918 by Guy Warner THE RAF ARMOURED CAR COMPANIES IN IRAQ (MOSTLY), 1921-1947 by Dr Christopher Morris No 4 SFTS AND RASCHID ALI’S WAR – IRAQ 1941 by Wg Cdr Mike Dudgeon SUBSTITUTION OR SUBORDINATION? THE EMPLOYMENT OF AIR POWER OVER AFGHANISTAN AND THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER, 1910-1939 by Clive Richards THE JEBEL AKHDAR WAR (THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN OMAN 1952-1959) by AVM Peter Dye THE RAF AND ADEN, 1928-1967 by Dr Sebastian Ritchie UTILISING JOINT FORCE HARRIER IN AFGHANISTAN’S COUNTER INSURGENCY CAMPAIGN by Wg Cdr Harvey Smyth Supplementary paper: SHAIBAH THEN AND NOW – a photographic essay by Gp Capt Clive Montellier

Journal 49 – 2011 7 April 2010 ‒ THE ROYAL AIR FORCE – AN INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: AVM George Black THE PRE-WAR DEVELOPMENT OF DOMINION AIR FORCES by Sebastian Cox ANSWERING THE ‘OLD COUNTRY’S’ CALL by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings ‘REPEAT, PLEASE!’ POLES AND CZECHOSLOVAKS IN THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN by Peter Devitt ALLIES AT WAR: THE RAF AND THE WESTERN EUROPEAN AIR FORCES, 1940-45 by Stuart Hadaway INTERNATIONAL FLYING TRAINING by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford CFS EXAMINING WING AND ITS WORK OVERSEAS, 1987-89 by Gp Capt Tom Eeles LOAN SERVICE WITH THE SULTAN OF OMAN’S AIR FORCE by Gp Capt Geoff Brindle A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF SERVICE WITH SOAF IN THE DHOFAR WAR by Wg Cdr Denis Grey RAF ASSOCIATED OVERSEAS GROUND FORCES by Air Cdre Mickey Witherow

Journal 50 – 2011 16 June 2010 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 24th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN – 70 YEARS ON by AGM guest speaker, Dr Michael Fopp Stand-alone papers: ‘EXECUTIVE FULLER!’ – THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND THE CHANNEL DASH by Gp Capt Alistair Byford ‒ 2009 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper THE RIGHT OF THE LINE by JOHN TERRAINE – A RE-ASSESSMENT 25 YEARS ON by Dr John Peaty ARTHUR TEDDER – AIR POWER MAESTRO by Gp Capt Andrew Thomas THE WIRELESS OPERATOR IN WW II by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE ‘HAND AND THUNDERBOLT’ BADGE by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford

Journal 50A – 2011 21 October 2010 ‒ THE BRISTOL CONNECTION – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Peter Squire THE BEGINNING – THE WHITE FAMILY by Sir George White BEFORE AND DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR by Prof Duncan Greenman THE BRISTOL FLYING SCHOOLS by Bill Morgan BRISTOL’S PISTON ENGINES AND THE RAF – AN OVERVIEW by Patrick Hassell AIRFRAME DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION 1919-45 by Peter Coombs BRISTOL AIRCRAFT IN WW II by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork FOCUS ON A BLENHEIM SQUADRON by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford BRISTOL AND THE RAF IN THE COLD WAR – THE CINDERELLA YEARS, 1946-60 by Prof Duncan Greenman BRISTOL TO ROLLS-ROYCE – THE GAS TURBINE STORY by Gp Capt Jock Heron THE LAST OF THE LINE – THE RAF BRITANNIA by Sqn Ldr David Berry COLD WAR PROJECTS by Tony Buttler FIFTY YEARS OF THE PEGASUS by Andrew Dow In Memoriam – Gordon Lewis by Andrew Dow

Journal 51 ‒ 2012 20 April 2011 ‒ SUPPORT OF AIR OPERATIONS – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Alcock AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, 1939 TO 1966 by AVM John Browne 5357 FIELD FORCE WING by John Marsh SHIELD FORCE: 5358 WING AND THE LIBERATION OF HONG KONG by Brian Corbett (presented by Wg Cdr Dick Turpin COLD WAR – WARM CLIMES by Sqn Ldr John Fox RAF REGIMENT ANTI-AIRCRAFT (AA) DEFENCE, WW II TO BELIZE by Air Cdre Mickey Witherow THE RAF SERVICING COMMANDOS, 1942-46 by Wg Cdr Tim Newstead ROYAL AIR FORCE REPAIR AND SALVAGE, 1939-1945 by AVM Peter Dye MOBILE FIELD PHOTOGRAPHIC UNITS. Jointly drafted by Gp Capt Geoffrey Oxlee and Wg Cdr Mike Mockford (presented by the latter) Supplementary paper: AN OVERVIEW OF AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION PRIOR TO AND DURING WW II by Sebastian Cox

Journal 52 – 2012 15 June 2011 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 25th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB AIR POWER IN THE 2003 IRAQ WAR by AGM guest speaker, Air Chf Mshl Sir Brian Burridge Stand-alone papers: ‘PINK’S WAR’ – APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF AIR CONTROL TO WAZIRISTAN, 9 MARCH TO 1 MAY 1925 by Lt-Col A M Roe ‒ 2010 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper TRAFFORD LEIGH-MALLORY – COMMANDER OF CONTROVERSY by Gp Capt Andrew Thompson A POLISH EPIC by Dr J T Cliffe THE INVENTION OF THE JET ENGINE by Alec Collins THE LAW, AND LORE, OF RAF FLYING BADGES by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford

Journal 53 – 2012 19 October 2011 ‒ THE RAF IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE JET ERA – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Richard Johns THE WORLD’S FIRST JET ENGINES: THE SERIOUS PURSUIT OF INNOVATION IN MILITARY AVIATION, 1936-1945 by Dr Hermione Giffard BRITAIN’S EARLY JET AIRCRAFT by Captain Eric Brown THE JET INTO RAF SQUADRON SERVICE by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork FIT FOR SERVICE – THE ROLE OF SERVICE TEST PILOTS by AVM Alan Merriman THE AVRO VULCAN – MAKING IT WORK by Tony Blackman THE COMET IN TRANSPORT COMMAND by Wg Cdr Basil D’Oliveira THE INTRODUCTION OF RAF JET AIRCRAFT – ENGINEERING AND SUPPLY ISSUES by AVM Graham Skinner Supplementary papers: THE LINCOLN THESEUS EXPERIMENTAL UNIT by Gp Capt J D ‘Jock’ Heron HIGH DUTY ALLOYS AND THE JET ENGINE by Tony Buttler

Journal 54 – 2013 4 April 2012 ‒ THE RAF AND THE ARMY CO-OPERATION ROLES INHERITED FROM THE EARLY RFC – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon CORPS RECONNAISSANCE 1914-18 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford ALL UNDILUTED NONSENSE’? – THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE ARMY CO-OPERATION ROLE, 1919-1940 by Clive Richards FROM ARMY CO-OPERATION TO FIGHTER RECONNAISSANCE – DEVELOPMENTS 1939-1945 by Peter Elliott THE ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND WARTIME SERVICE OF THE AUSTER AIRCRAFT by Hugh Thomas FIRST IN THE FIELD – 651 SQUADRON, 1941-45 by Guy Warner AIR OP AND THE ARMY AIR CORPS, POST-WW II by Col Michael Hickey Supplementary papers: SOLDIER PILOTS IN THE RAF 1920-41 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford FLYING BADGES FOR ARMY PILOTS 1921-58 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford Journal 55 – 2013 20 June 2012 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 26th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB BOMBER COMMAND AND THE LESSONS OF THE BLITZ 1940-1941 by AGM guest speaker, Prof Richard Overy Stand-alone papers: AIR POWER IN THE MAU MAU CONFLICT: THE GOVERNMENT’S CHIEF WEAPON by Wg Cdr Steve Chappell ‒ 2011 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper WHAT’S IN A NAME? RDF, RADAR AND RADIOLOCATION by Clive Richards JAMES TEMPLER AND THE BIRTH OF BRITISH MILITARY AVIATION by Michael J Dunn THE AIR GUNNER by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE MOSS ON THE ROLLING STONE OF HISTORY by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford

Journal 56 – 2013 24 October 2012 ‒ SHOT DOWN BEHIND ENEMY LINES – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Roger Austin THE ORGANISATION OF ESCAPE AND EVASION by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork MAPS (AND MORE) FOR THE CHAPS – ESCAPE AIDS AND TRAINING by Peter Elliott AIR FORCE PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMPS IN THE THIRD REICH by Charles Rollings THE ESCAPE LINES OF NORTH-WEST EUROPE IN WW II by Roger Stanton OPERATIONS TO RECOVER RELEASED PRISONERS OF WAR by Sebastian Cox A BAGHDAD PRISONER by Sqn Ldr Bob Ankerson Supplementary papers: THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANISATION OF ESCAPE ATTEMPTS WITHIN AIR FORCE PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMPS IN THE THIRD REICH, 1939-45 by Charles Rollings

Journal 57 – 2014 13 March 2013 ‒ OPERATION GRANBY – THE RAF IN GULF WAR I, 1990-91 – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine JOINT COMMANDER’S OVERVIEW by Air Chf Mshl Sir Patrick Hine COMMAND AND CONTROL IN THE UK by Air Chf Mshl Sir Richard Johns DEVELOPING THE HEADQUARTERS IN KINGDOM by Air Mshl Ian Macfadyen LOGISTICS SUPPORT by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Alcock NEW JETS FOR OLD – A CASE STUDY by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings (concerns the Jaguar) AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS by Gp Capt Jerry King THE AIR CAMPAIGN PLAN AND AIR TASKING ORDERS by Air Chf Mshl Sir William Wratten OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS TORNADO by Air Cdre Jeremy Witts BUCCANEER OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS by Wg Cdr Ewan Fraser TANKER SUPPORT TO ALLIED OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS by Air Cdre Geoff Simpson SUPPORT HELICOPTERS AND THE GROUND WAR by Gp Capt Mike Trace

Journal 58 – 2014 25 June 2013 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 27th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB BOMBER COMMAND IN POPULAR LITERATURE AND PERCEPTION by AGM guest speaker, Prof Richard Morris Stand-alone papers: RPAS AND THE ETHICAL LANDSCAPE OF CONTEM-PORARY CONFLICT by Wg Cdr Nicholas Tucker-Lowe ‒ 2012 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper BRUNEI – 1963 by AVM Alan Johnson. (A personal account of accessing the site of a crashed Twin Pioneer) THE BLUE STREAK UNDERGROUND LAUNCHERS by John Boyes JOINT SERVICES SCHOOLS FOR LINGUISTS 1951-60 by Dennis Mills MANNA FROM HEAVEN by Gerald A White Jr. (The development of air re-supply in India/Burma 1943- 43) In Memoriam – Jack Dunham

Journal 58A – 2014 22 October 2013 ‒ THE VULCAN – a seminar held at the Bristol Aerospace Welfare Association (BAWA) conference facility, Filton Chairman: Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Knight REQUIREMENTS AND CONCEPTS; DELTAS, CRESCENTS AND OTHER OPTIONS by Tony Buttler THE VULCAN’S ENGINE by Gp Capt Jock Heron THE VULCAN AS AN ENGINE TEST BED by Patrick Hassell V-FORCE DEVELOPMENT – SIMULTANEOUS ENGINE STARTING by Air Chf Mshl Sir Michael Alcock THE VIEW FROM THE BACK – THE VULCAN NAV/ATTACK SYSTEM by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford THE POST-QRA ERA, 1969-1984 by AVM Nigel Baldwin THE SIXTH SEAT: A VULCAN CREW CHIEF’S STORY by Tony Regan THE WARMER SIDE OF THE COLD WAR by Wg Cdr Adrian Sumner THE VULCAN BOMBER IN ACTION – Operation BLACK BUCK by Sqn Ldr Martin Withers VULCAN: HONOURING THE PAST, INSPIRING THE FUTURE by Dr Robert Pleming Supplementary papers: THE REAR CREW ESCAPE SAGA by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford GUNS FOR V-BOMBERS? By Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford

Journal 59 – 2015 9 April 2014 ‒ THE RAF AND AIRBORNE FORCES – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: General Sir Rupert Smith ORIGINS AND INFANCY OF THE CENTRAL LANDING SCHOOL, RINGWAY, AND THE TRAGINO AQUEDUCT RAID by Nicolas Livingstone THE PARACHUTE TRAINING OF BRITISH AIRBORNE FORCES by Gp Capt Peter Hearn GLIDERS, TUGS AND EARLY OPERATIONS by Wg Cdr Colin Cummings MOVEMENT AND RESUPPLY OF GROUND FORCES IN BURMA, 1942-45 by Roger Annett AIRBORNE OPERATIONS: FROM NORMANDY TO VARSITY by Dr Sebastian Ritchie RAF REGIMENT PARACHUTE UNITS, 1942-1950 by Graeme Deeley AIRBORNE DELIVERY WING – CURRENT PARACHUTING CAPABILITIES by Wg Cdr Wayne Loxton

Journal 60 – 2015 18 June 2014 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 28th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB COMMEMORATING THE FIRST WAR IN THE AIR by AGM guest speaker, Air Vice-Marshal Dr Peter Dye Stand-alone papers: RISE OF THE ROBOTS? WESTERN UNMANNED AIR OPERATIONS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, 2001 TO 2010 by Sqn Ldr Joe Doyle ‒ 2013 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper POST-WAR FIGHTER SQUADRON MARKINGS. (Note amplifying the coloured representations of fighter ‘bar’ markings provided as a separate insert with this edition) TO THE VICTOR, THE SPOILS: THE RAF’S TOXIC LEGACY FROM THE DISSOLUTION OF THE LUFTWAFFE IN 1945 by Wing Commander Trevor Stone. (The disposal of German chemical weapons, 1946-56) BEAVERBROOK’S AMERICAN MERLINS by George Galaska GUNS IN THE SUN AND SNOW by Air Commodore Phil Wilkinson. (The RAF in Southern Russia 1918- 1920) OVERSEAS GEE CHAINS 1945-46 by Walter Blanchard

Journal 61 – 2015 22 October 2014 ‒ ASPECTS OF THE RAF IN THE FAR EAST ‒ POST-WWII – a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Ian Macfadyen THE RAF IN INDO CHINA, 1945-46 by Stuart Hadaway THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN KOREA by Ewan Burnet BRUNEI 1962-63 by Sebastian Cox AIR REINFORCEMENT OF THE FAR EAST SINCE 1948 by Wg Cdr ‘Jeff’ Jefford HELICOPTERS IN FEAF – SYCAMORES TO BELVEDERES by Gp Capt Paul Gray RAF FIGHTER ACTIVITIES IN FEAF – 1961 TO 1970 by Gp Capt ‘Jock’ Heron LIGHTNING DEPLOYMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT by Air Cdre Ian McBride Journal 62 - 2016 1 April 2015 – GUIDED WEAPONS ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: Air Mshl Sir Roger Austin THE NUCLEAR DIMENSION – THE DEVELOPMENT OF WARHEADS FOR THE ROYAL AIR FORCE ‘SPECIAL WEAPONS’ by Katherine Pyne BLUE STEEL – THE V-FORCE’S STAND-OFF BOMB by Air Cdre Norman Bonnor BLOODHOUND by Richard Vernon SHORT RANGE AIR DEFENCE ‒ TIGERCAT by Wg Cdr Martin Hooker SHORT RANGE AIR DEFENCE ‒ RAPIER by Wg Cdr Simon Openshaw MARTEL & SEA EAGLE by Air Cdre David Wilby THOR – POLITICS AND OPERATIONS by Maj John Boyes AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES – THE FIRST 30 YEARS by Wg Cdr Andrew Lister-Tomlinson

Journal 63 – 2016 1 July 2015 ‒ MINUTES OF THE 29th AGM HELD AT THE RAF CLUB BUILDING AND DEPLOYING BLUE DANUBE – BRITAIN’S FIRST NUCLEAR WEAPON by AGM guest speaker, Jonathan Aylen Stand-alone papers: THE V-WEAPONS OFFENSIVE: ITS IMPACT UPON THE ALLIED WAR EFFORT AND SOME REFLECTIONS UPON THE CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS OF WEAPONS OF MASS EFFECT by Gp Capt M R Johnson ‒ 2014 RAF Two Air Forces Award paper FLYING ROLES FOR WOMEN IN THE RAF by Gp Capt Dr Kathleen Sherit FIDO AND EMERGENCY RUNWAYS ‒ A HAVEN FOR THE BOMBER STREAM by Adam Sutch GUNS IN THE SUN AND SNOW (RATHER MORE SNOW) ‒ THE RAF IN NORTHERN RUSSIA 1918- 19 by Air Cdre Phil Wilkinson MY FATHER’S ‘PILOTS FLYING LOG BOOK’ CRANWELL AND INDIA 1920-26 by AVM David Brook Obituary: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Michael Beetham by Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork

Journal 64 – 2016 21 October 2015 ‒ ASPECTS OF RAF MARITIME AIR SINCE WW II ‒ a seminar held at the RAF Museum, Hendon Chairman: AVM Andrew Roberts RAF MARITIME AIR ‒ THE FIRST POST-WAR DECADE by Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford MARITIME AIRCRAFT WEAPONS 1946 TO 2000+ by Sqn Ldr Andrew Lovett ACQUIRING THE POST-WAR AEROPLANES by Wg Cdr Jeff Jefford THE SHACKLETON FROM A NAVIGATOR’S VIEWPOINT by Air Cdre Bill Tyack FROM DEEP by Cdre Toby Elliott VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT by Wg Cdr Mike Cockrill A REFLECTION ON THE NIMROD MR2, THE MARITIME FORCE AND ITS INHERENT ADAPTABILITY by Air Cdre Robbie Noel and Gp Capt JJ Johnston